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Camp Adair Sentry Page Thnea Friday, July 21, 1944. War I Vet Launched Sentry; First Issue Off Press on April 23, 1942 If You Know Ex-Post Employees with Bonds, 1 Money Due, Read on On April 23. 1942, the first Camp Adair Sentry rolled • If you know any employees. off the press, the brainchild of a World War I veteran. listed in recent Sentry stories, He is Don Wilson, presently Rent Administrator in Cor 1 who were employed at Adair in First Sentry Editor "Fabulous Sgt. Brown"; Those Gone Before J On May 8. 1943, T Sgt. Edwin Anthony Brown went to OCS. Thus the Sentry, in losing its first editor, lost a fabul- ous character. vallis, who was mustered out of j 1942 and were mentioned as hav- the army as a first lieutenant i ing War Bonds or money await- First Publisher April 2, 1919, after serving for ! ing them, contact Virginia three years. Except for 60 days, Brown at extension 2888 in Post W ilson served continuously after Headquarters. starting with Mexican Border serv This number was changed ice in 1916. from the one previously listed. 17 Months Overseas More than 70 «x-eniployees Overseas 17 months, first with are represented on this list. a machine gun outfit in the 41st Division and later in the tank corps. Wilson saw 60 days front line action in both the St. Miehiel and Argonne shows. His CO—whose name is on his of ficer record book and on his dis charge papers—was now-I.ieuten- ant General George S. Patton. Napoleon is in jail! News in New Returned from the wars. Wilson York over 224 years ago is authen matriculated at Oregon State col tically reported by Carl Jirel. Prin lege, earning his way through by cipal Engineer, cf Post Engineers. proceeds from a small print shop Reason: Jirel claims to hold a first which “did” dance programs and edition of the first newspaper in house stationery. America. It has been the basis of He was with the Oregon City many stories and articles in news Banner Courier, later purchased papers throughout the country. The and operated for seven years the paper is very well preserved and, Corvallis weekly newspaper. according to the owner, is made of When Camp Adair construction the finest rags and could probably began, thought of a paper came i not be reproduced today. uppermost in Wilson’s mind. Hence Signal Corps Photf- The paper helps to draw a com forth, the Sentry was born, "mount DON WILSON of Corvallis. parison between present day liv ing guard in and about Camp World War I veteran who pub ing and American colonies of 1720 Adair, Oregon.” In the first days, lished Sentry first as a civilian by its stories of European upheav- ads from Corvallis, Albany. Salem, enterprise. i al, as well as the size of New York Dallas, Independence and Mon I City and the modes of travel. mouth supported the periodical. It took, for instance. 25 days to On March 4. 1943. advertising travel from New York to Phila was suspended, and on August 13, delphia. Two deaths were reported 1943. the Sentry became the strict in New York that day. An ad ly GI newspaper which it has since It was 70th night Wednesday at wanted "one negro wench to nurse remained. Service Club 1, as a special GI I two young picanninies”.” loor show was presented by men Worth $5000 if the divisional special services i Jirel says that the paper has iff ice. j man* times been object of col Leading off and emceeing the lectors' eyes. He was offered -how was Tec5 Bob Rivers, tap $5000 by Frank Morgan, radio dancer, whose professional antics and screen star, who allegedly Praise for the drive which put have made him popular at all Post | has a relative in the listing of one the civilian employees over the top entertainments. I of the stock companies then play- in the bond campaign, building Feminine addition to the program i ing New York. from a 90 percent participation and was Pat Krewson of Dallas, who ; Jirel also has a fine collection of 10 percent deduction on June 1 to gave out with the blue in her 'first editions of many other books, 100 percent participation and 15 typical fashion. i newspapers and magazines dating percent deduction, was given in a Others rounding out the show | as far back as 1530. He says that visit last week by John B. Hodg kins, representative of the U. S. included Sgt. Howaro Townsend, 'his Carolina ancestors were the in- pianist, who helped arrange many I ¡tigators of the collecting hobby Treasury department. In comment to Major Earl F. of the musical »numbers for the and that his wife is the chief care- Armstrong, post War Bond qfficer; division show, “As You Were”; j taker of the collection now. Capt. Gilbert A. Waite, director of Cpl. Hugh Smith, vocalist, and ex personnel; and E. L. Cramblitt, I announcer on ;:ie "Oregon’s Own” DODGER PITCHES FOR chief of civilian personnel. Hodg radio show; Pfc. Clifford Berge, TEAM AT ATTERBURY t AMP ATTERBURY. Ind. kins stated the accomplishment on violinist par excellence, and Pvt. the Post in the drive and the sys Ed Golden, whose "golden” tenor is (ALNS)—Van Lingle Mungo, for tem adopted the best he had known. well known to division music fans. mer Brooklyn Dodger, is now mak ing a new mound mark as pitcher He extended appreciation to Camouflage blinds the enemy! If for the Camp Atterbury baseball those making investments in the he can’t see you, he can’t hit you. team. Sth War Loan. Paper, Dated 1720 America's First, Owned by Engr. 70th Men Perform Club 1 Wednesday Representative of Treasury Praises War Loan Progress ’ Genial "Brownie,” forty-ish and a War I veteran who had been on the city desk of newspapers from Paris to New York to Los Angeles to Portland, was honorably dis charged. and later ruefully wrote in an Oregonian feature called "One War Too Many”: Calm Anayisis “Now that I am back in the impressed tweeds some writer* are pleased to call mufti, a calm analysis has convinced me that ■ it wasn't war. not World War I nor World War II. that got me down, but the lush and happy years between.” Author of two books, “Border Town” and “Queer People,” and countless other items, part of Sgt. Brown’s extensive Hollywood ca reer was with Jimmy Fidler. As a matter of fact, the Sentry WHEN HE WAS T/Sgt. Ed in its brief span, has had a color win A. Brown—the first editor of ful galaxy of Fourth- Estaters. the Sentry. Chronologically: The Galaxy There was T/Sgt. Bob Black, now a lieutenant overseas, for merly production manager for Station KIT, Yakima; Sgt. Henry Beckett. New York Post; Sgt. Ray Johnson and Cpl. John Gu- American casualties during 31 belman. of global fighting in World There was Cpl. Wallace X. War II have surpassed total Amer ican casualties in War I, accord Rawles, former King Features edi- ing to official Washington re I tor; Pfc. Jim O’Connell, now u lieutenant serving overseas; Pfc. ports. | Joe Love, Pvt. Glenn Peterson, Pvt. Casualties to date are 261,541, • Harry Klissner. as compared to 259,735 during the Of the later staff, there was Cpl. 19 months of U. S. participation ii Lionel Kay, now at CCS; Cpl. Ben the 1917-18 war. Hirschkowitz, lately of Camp By breakdown, the figures show: Beale, und Cpl. Paul Rosenberg, This war—56.772 dead; 107,938 currently at Fort Lewis. wounded; 55,903 missing; 40,928 prisoners. Last war—53,878 dead; 201,377 wounded; 4,480 priseners. Casualties of War II Surpass War I Total Japs Seen Suckers For 'Change of Pace' 'Oregonian' Will Feature Adair's Sentry, July 30th Southwest Pacific(CNS) The Jap is “a sucker for a change of pace,” according to Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney, who has seen the enemy in action both here and in the South Pacific. Writing in the magazine "Air Forces," Gen Kenney said that the Allies have discovered that the enemy is baffled by any new type of attack. "Finally, he figures it out and is ready for it,” the gen eral wrote. “But by that time we have it changed.” A feature article, titled “Army Editor.” reciting the woes, weals and ad infinitum relevant to the publication of an Army newspaper (the Sentry, that is), ia scheduled to appear in the July 30 issue of the Portland Oregonian. The article, written by Tec3 Bob Ruskauff, managing editor, will appear in the Oregonian Sunday magazine section, edited by Don McLeod. A bond bought is $$ saved. Camouflage blinds the enemy! Conceal black shadows under nets. TIDE OF WORLD EVENTS HAS CHANGED SINCE 'WORLDTHIS WEEK' BEGAN IN SENTRY j ish 8th crossed the straits and land By Tec4 John Stamp A year ago this month “The ed on the toe of Italy. Mussolini World thia Week” was launched in resigned and Badoglio took over. an attempt to keep the enlisted Italy surrendered and joined the man informed at a glance of the Allies. In the months that followed, significant events in an ever British and Americans made slow changing world. The first issoe and rapid gains northward from marked a turning point of the war, the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic, for the Allies began offensives on leaving Salerno. Naples, Anzio all of the major battlefionts of the and Cassino in their wake. world. Fall of Rome How War Was Waged With summer came the fall of tn western Earwpe. the battle . Rome and the Wecond front inva- field was in the skies; la Rus sia. there was a clash ef armies; , rion. Meanwhile, the greatest in the Pacific, the first parely aerial bombardments the world has > offensive campaign was wader- ever seen descended upon the tan- I taken; while in the Mediterraa itinent. Day and night. Allied bomb ean. combined wperatiens Im roared across the English ehan- achieved the mwst brilliant tri- nel. smashed industrial inatalia- j trans. railways and highways in ■ mph for the Allies. i Juiy 1943 saw the Allied air force Germany and the occupied coun- come of age as it flung itself into tries, reduced Germany's principal the battle of Sicily. Combined cities to shambles, az4 softened up operations of land, see and air con- the invasion coast. Allied troupe, tr:buted to the Allied triumph as under cover of terrific air and sea ! the 38-day battle ended with the bombardment, landed oa the coast fall of Messina Terrific aerial bom- of France between Cherbourg and bardment of southern Italy followed Le Havre and pushed inland The as a prelude to the long swatted m- conquest of the ( herbourg penin- at the continent. Aa the I aula and the first lap of the nsarrh I 'World This Week' onrushing Soviet armies. The island bopping. Moving in an are, Germans no longer looked for U.S. naval, air and ground force« territory bet for escape routes forged ahead, striking at New and by the end of the year the Guinea. New Georgia, New Brit Rursians carried the comeback ain in the Solomons—on to the trail to Poland. Latvia and the Marshalls and the Gilbert*. Allied Romanian borders. ¡4 airmen blasted Jap _ bases ______________ from the _ Attacking on a 500-mile front Bismark sea to the Carolines is- from old Poland to the Black sea. lands. By sea and air, the U. S. the Nazi* were hurled back a* r.avy now controls the last reaches Stalin’* armies »wept through the from the Kurile islands on to the Kerch peninsula, the Crimea, the Marianas on the south. Romanian center of Iasi and fought > , over the Czech border to the Hun- , ** ' garian plain. Th. »ummer offer.-' . ,n Wor,d ‘«‘•X. »«* dread of two fronts has become * live rolled around again with the eastern front blazing into action throe front reality. Tho Puxaian from the Arctic to the White sea offensive ha* swept the German« and the Gulf of Finland. Red to the reich itself in on« of tho armies capture*! Vilpuri. Finnish worst defeats since Stalingrad. In gateway city; Minsk, capital of Italy, there is no longer any Gor White Russia and drove to the man hope for another great offen East Prussia border and on to the sive. The American offensive clos road to Warsaw and Berlin. ing on Japan has swept through Japs On Defense 10,000 mile* of the Pacific nearly year ago the battle of the to enemy shores The invasion of . south Pacific assumed its final Saipan gives America __ _ a spring. | stage. Japan was oo the defen» ive.. board on Japan's most strategic is- . The Americans attained tuperrari- 1 land group and a stepping «tone to J ty in sea *nd air power, and though Tokyo lane than lfQO mi|an >«..